Compendium: Sleep & Fatigue Risk Management

Here’s an assortment of papers on sleep and occupational fatigue. Focus is on articles I’ve summarised or full-text I could locate. A few themes are covered: Feel free to shout a coffee if you’d like to support the growth of my site: Sleep & Fatigue https://www.academia.edu/30709111/Fatigue_proofing_A_new_approach_to_reducing_fatigue_related_risk_using_the_principles_of_error_management https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/pdf/10.5664/jcsm.9512 https://www.academia.edu/7558212/A_Model_to_Predict_Work_Related_Fatigue_Based_on_Hours_of_Work https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106398 https://www.academia.edu/115005821/Effects_of_fatigue_on_surgeon_performance_and_surgical_outcomes_a_systematic_review https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6495463_The_dynamics_of_neurobehavioural_recovery_following_sleep_loss https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-abstract/20/4/267/2732104?redirectedFrom=PDF https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49656992_Research_needs_and_opportunities_for_reducing_the_adverse_safety_consequences_of_fatigue https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2022-0411/pdf https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/47/5/47_5_518/_pdf… Continue reading Compendium: Sleep & Fatigue Risk Management

What Control Measures Should I Use? Applying the Total Worker Health Hierarchy of Controls to Manage Workplace Fatigue

This new paper from Drew Dawson and others reconceptualised fatigue risk management within Total Worker Health (TWH) Hierarchy of Controls (HOC). THW HOC works as an extension to the traditional HOC, and “presents strategies in order of effectiveness, ranging from “eliminate,” “substitute,” “redesign,” “educate,” and “encourage” categories” They say that while is mostly associated with… Continue reading What Control Measures Should I Use? Applying the Total Worker Health Hierarchy of Controls to Manage Workplace Fatigue